INDEX 



445 



Machinery, labor-saving, 108 

 Macklin, T. H., cited, 156 

 Magill, R., on wheat prices, 232 

 Mail order house and agricultural 



problems, 156 



Maladies of farm animals, 23 

 Malthus, T. R., Principle of Popula- 

 tion, 435 

 Market, cornering the, 273 



director, State, functions of a, 134 

 Marketing activities, State, 131 



and the middleman, chapter 



on, 130 

 costs, 152 



money, 151 

 direct, 152 

 in Idaho, 132 

 law of California, 132 

 officials, national association of, 



140 



parcel post, 140 

 peach crop, 21 

 problems in Texas, 139 

 of Washington, 139 

 publications on, 154-156 

 scene at Russian fair, 420 

 seasonal, 21 



State field agents in, 139 

 work in New York, 136 



in North Carolina, 137 

 Markets, Bureau of, 140, 321 

 in Ohio, 138 

 in Pennsylvania, 138 

 cornering the, 263 

 department of, in Michigan, 136 

 Martin, T. E., Farm, 433 

 Mathis, Mrs. G. H., Fanner Leader, 



158 

 McKenzie, M., on transportation of 



live stock, 189 



Live-stock Trade in South Am- 

 erica, 371 



McKenzie, R., of Winnipeg, 305 

 McNiel, John, Farm, 67 

 Mead, Elwood, cited, 77, 78 

 Meat a dear food, 366 

 inspection, 317 

 margins of profit, 143 

 packers, largest, 373 

 packing industry, 372 



plants, 371 



Meats fresh and cured, 426 

 Michell,H., The Grange in Canada,310 

 Middleman, cost of, 142 

 elimination of, 153, 157 

 marketing and the, chapter on, 



130 



problem, probable solution of, 149 

 services of the, 148 



Middleman, speculative, function per- 

 formed by, 269 

 Milk, ideal food, 50 



marketing, books on, 155, 156 

 Mill, John Stuart, on peasant pro- 

 prietors, 34 



Misused terms hoarding, 262 

 Mitchell, W. C., History of Prices 



During the War, 244 

 Morgan, J. P. & Co., Bankers, 12 

 Morman, J. B., Principles of Rural 



Credit, 185 



Mortgage and tenancy problems, 55 

 Mortgages, farm, increasing, 69 

 Mowers, improvements in, 120 

 Mowing machines, American, in 



Italy, 124 

 Myrick, H., How to Cooperate, 155 



National Agricultural Organization 



Society, 171 

 Farmers League, 303 

 Nitrates question, 429 

 Nonpartisan League, 302, 303 

 Norway has best social and economic 



conditions, 32 



Nourse, E. G., cited, 14, 155 

 Nystrom on economics of retailing, 



149, 150, 155 



Oats, cost of producing, per acre, 260 



extreme prices of, 248, 249 

 Ocean transportation, 201 



and the World War, 202 

 Organization, strong, example of, 286 

 Osman on Hepburn Act, 356 

 Output, limitation of, 308 

 Overcapitalized land, 24 



a bad thing for farmers, 29 

 Owner farming, view of, 57 



Packer, first plant of a large, 373 

 large, first plant of, 373 



plant of, sixty years later, 



374 

 Packers and price question, 381 



Big Five, dissolution of the, 387 

 combination among, 384 

 Federal Trade Commission re- 

 port on (1918), 382 

 magnitude of business, 382 

 potential competition, 380 

 profits of, 381 



real evil of, and the remedy, 385 

 reply of, to Federal Trade Com- 

 mission Report, 385 

 responsible government for the, 



side lines of, 377 



